John Bayard

John Bayard (11 August 1738-7 January 1807) was a Continental Army colonel during the American Revolutionary War and Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1794 to 1796.

Biography
John Bayard was born in Bohemia Manor, Maryland in 1738, and he moved to Philadelphia in 1755 and became a leader of the city's merchant community and a member of the Sons of Liberty in 1766. He served in the state government and as a colonel of a state militia regiment during the American Revolutionary War,  fighting at the Battle of Princeton, the Battle of Brandywine, and the Battle of Germantown. From 1785 to 1786, he represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and he later moved to New Jersey to retire. However, he served as Mayor of New Brunswick from 1794 to 1796, and he died in 1807. His grandson George Dashiell Bayard would serve as a Union cavalry general during the American Civil War and die at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.